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Is poll a Scrabble word?

Yes, poll is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of poll?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.Examples: "[…]the doctor, as if to hear better, had taken off his powdered wig, and sat there, looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black poll."; "And you might perceive the president and general manager, Mr. R. G. Atterbury, with his priceless polished poll, busy in the main office room dictating letters.."; "The main plate is formed in two halves, the upper plate having small sideplates, ear guards, an escutcheon plate (blank), and a brass plume-holder, as well as a hinged poll plate."Synonyms: scalp

2. (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.Examples: "We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands."; "The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll."

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).transitive

2. (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).transitive

3. (intransitive) To vote at an election.Examples: "Mr. Millbank's friends were not disheartened, as it was known that the leading members of Mr. Rigby's Committee had polled; whereas his opponent's were principally reserved."intransitive

4. (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).Examples: "when he [Absalom] polled his head"; "1579-1603, Thomas North, Plutarch's Lives His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs."transitive

5. (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).transitive

6. (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).Examples: "The network hub polled the department’s computers to determine which ones could still respond."transitive

adj (English)

1. (of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.Examples: "Poll Hereford"; "Red Poll cows"; "Sheep, that is, the Horned sort, and those without Horns, called Poll Sheep [...]"

noun (English)

1. (UK, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.UKdated

noun (English)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A disreputable woman.UKobsoleteslang

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "poll"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "poll"?

Scrabble
6 points
P3
O1
L1
L1
Words With Friends
9 points
P4
O1
L2
L2

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